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| author | Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-10-28 16:09:17 +0530 |
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| committer | Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-10-29 17:02:08 +0530 |
| commit | 1f33e4f29e8cf4ba14e75d8fa37fd9ba0ea09c53 (patch) | |
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| parent | b931c7bc10a3c29a8ca0e693d4dfb94f17311451 (diff) | |
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ipv4: Fix send packet across a subnet
The send packet code does understand that the IP is not part of the
current network and needs to use the router. And then tries to get the
MAC address of the router IP from arp cache, that fails. This is
becuase there was no ARP Request send for the router IP.
So in case when there is router involved, send arp request for the
router IP and after the reply, we have the router mac cached to
communicate with.
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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